"Based on the illustration of the female body, I have developed a canon of shapes that transforms anatomical details to describe plastically feelings such as self-confidence, erotic, composure, heaviness, lightness.

As a result, existing beauty ideals are re-examined.

The female image is carried further to juxtapose various associations and shapes of feminity.

I find it interesting to create a realistic image of the unrealistic one.

The figurative illustration creates an interesting tension between the realistic and surreal/comical creation of the human being.

A new field is the topic of growth. My works move increasingly away from the human anatomy and they merge body shapes of humans, animals, and landscapes." M.L.

The grotesque opulence of the forms in Miriam Lenk's works forces a contemplation. An unmitigated questioning of existing beauty ideals. Women's bodies become morbidly obese naked giants between obscenity and the glorification of the volume; from the motionless exageration of "Cumulus" to the lightness of "Yolanda" whose mass seems to float weightless possessed of almost boundless sensuality.

"Oktopussy", cerámica / ceramic, 40 x 42 x 38 cm., 2009

In her website you can check her body of work, but not too much info available. It is basically a gallery of her artworks and her artistic CV.

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